Anti-graft drive continues with focus on ‘two-faced’ Party members

China’s disciplinary organ vows to expel “disloyal, dishonest” Party members in its ongoing anti-graft campaign, media reported on Saturday.

“Two-faced” members who are disloyal and dishonest to the Party, namely those who comply in public but oppose in private, should be firmly excluded, said a communique adopted at the second plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was held from Thursday to Saturday.

In the communique, the CCDI pledged to enhance monitoring of political life within the Party and inspect how key principles and policies are carried out and internal management mechanisms operate, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The ongoing anti-graft campaign will continue to focus on leaders who did not stop corrupt practices after the 18th National Congress of the CPC and Party members who displayed any of the “four forms of decadence” – formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance.

Officials will be assessed on their “political stance, principles, commitment and discipline,” and held accountable for shortcomings in these aspects.

The CCDI reported and punished 248 provinciallevel leaders in 2017, eight more than in 2016, the Legal Daily reported. Among the 248 provincial leaders, 237 were expelled from the Party and 224 were transferred to judiciary organs, the report said, which means that 90 percent of them received punishment within the Party.

On average, 20 provincial leaders were punished each month in 2017, according to the Legal Daily.

The largest number came from Guangdong Province, numbering 28 in total. Liaoning Province was second with 18 and Hunan Province was third, with 17 people in total. No provincial leaders from Beijing, Yunnan, Henan and Zhejiang were punished, the report said.